Here are compact wireless Fedora/RHEL packages. The purpose of these packages is provide
upstream wireless drives and stack for Fedora/RHEL kernels for testing. They allow to
quickly evaluate if WLAN related issue you perhaps hitting on Fedora/RHEL is already fixed on
upstream. Currently packages are prepared for F- 16, F-17 and RHEL6 (6.2 or above required).

You have to reboot the system after installing packages to make sure proper modules
are used. Reloading wireless drivers modules (using rmmod/modprobe) after installing packages
could result kernel crash.

Things can go wrong, especially with -next modules,
so assure your grub.conf allow to choose different kernel at boot, or allow to edit kernel
options to boot in single mode, to make recovery easy if system does not boot after installing
compat-wireless package.

Based on upstream kernel version two variants of compat-wireless packages are provided:
-stable and -next. Packages are compiled against latest kernel from Fedora updates
repository in standard and -debug variant (PAE kernels are not supported). On RHEL6
packages can be used on any standard kernel version from RHEL6.2 or above (debug and
PAE kernel variants are not supported).

On Fedora, to install you can add compat-wireless.repo
file to your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, and use yum like in example.

# yum install compat-wireless-next

Other than that, you can also download package manually from links below and use rpm tool, eg.

# rpm -ivh kmod-compat-wireless-2.6.37-4.fc14.1.i686.rpm

This installation method in required on RHEL at present.

Removing package can be done like in examples below, depending on installation method.
Also reboot is needed, to make changes visible.

# yum remove compat-wireless-next

# rpm -e kmod-compat-wireless-2.6.37-4.fc14.1.i686.rpm

Packages installation and uninstallation can take some time as recalculating of
module symbols dependencies is need (depmod program). Especially on
RHEL, where depmod is performed for each installed kernel, package add/remove
can take a few minutes.

To verify if modules from compat-wireless packages are in use, you can check if comapt.ko
module is loaded, for example: